040393 UK Armut 2 Stunden, 4,0 ECTS, Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung DI 13.00-14.30 Ort: Hörsaal 29 Hauptgebäude Beginn: 6. 10. Zielgruppe: StudentInnen Bakkalaureatsstudiums der Volkswirtschaftslehre und des Diplomstudiums der Volkswirtschaftslehre im zweiten Studienabschnitt. Inhalt: Analyse von Armut. Politik zur Reduzierung von Armut. 1. Definition von Armut 2. Individuum und Haushalt 3. Dauer von Armut 4. Messung von Armut 5. Armut in Österreich 6. Wirtschaftswachstum und Armut 7. Internationale Messungen. 8. Armutspolitik Leistungserfordernisse: 1. Drei kurze Darstellungen (ca. 6000 Zeichen) einer der angeführten Arbeiten aus jeweils unterschiedlichen Gebieten. (siehe downloads) (15%) 2. Eine Seminararbeit über alle der bei einem Thema angeführten Arbeiten. (25%) 3.Gruppenarbeiten: Darstellung eines Armutsproblems aus Österreich an Hand eigener Recherchen. Diese sollen in den Jännerterminen vorgetragen werden (10%). 4. Klausur über den von mir bis Dezember vorgetragenen Stoff im ersten Jännertermin (50%). Themen für die Arbeiten unter 3: 1. Sozialhilfe 2. Arbeitende Arme 3. Armut und Kinder 4. Asylanten 5. Wohnungslose 6….. Einführende Literatur: Ravallion, Martin: Poverty Comparisons harwood academic publishers, 1994. Rosner, Peter: The Economics of Social Policy, Chapter 8, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2003, Condouel, Aline, Jesko S. Hentschel and Quentin T. Wodon, Poverty Measurement and Analysis http://povlibrary.worldbank.org/files/5467_chap1.pdf und http://povlibrary.worldbank.org/files/5808_annex_a.pdf Weitere Literatur : Jean-Yves Duclos und Abdelkrim Adaar Poverty and Equity: Measurement, Policy and Estimation with DAD New York: Springer Zu finden bei: http://www.idrc.ca/openebooks/229-5/ Wichtige Journale: Journal of Development Economics Journal of Human Resources Journal of Social Policy Review of Income and Wealth Sonstige Quellen: Webseite der Weltbank und dort Forschungsberichte zur Armut. Vor allem über Länder der Dritten Welt Webseite von Luxemburg Income Study. In diesen Studien werden in erster Linie die OECD Länder untersucht. Für die Vorlesung: 1) Abhijit V. Bannerjee and Esther Duflo, The Economic Lives of the Poor, Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 21(2007), Winter, pp.141–168. 2) Tim Callan, Brian Nolan and Christopher T. Whelan, Resources, Deprivation and the Measurement of Poverty, Journal of Social Policy, vol. 22(1993), pp. 141–172. P.P.L. McGregor and V.K. Borooah, Is Low Spending or Low Income a Better Indicator of Whether or Not a Household is Poor: Some Results from The 1985 Family Expenditure Survey, Journal of Social Policy, vol. 21(1992) pp.53 – 69. Robert J. Waldmann.: Income Distribution and Infant Mortality, Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 107(1992), pp.1283–1302. 3) Amartya Sen, Poor, Relatively Speaking, Oxford Economic Papers, vol. 35(1983), pp. 153–69. Amartya Sen, Commodities and Capabilities, Amsterdam and New York: North Holland, 1985. Theo Goedhart, Victor Halberstadt, Arie Kapteyn, Bernard van Praag, The Poverty Line: Concept and Measurement, Journal of Human Resources, vol. 12(1977), pp. 503–519. Aldi Hagenaars, Klas de Vos, The Definition and Measurement of Poverty, The Journal of Human Resources, vol. 23(1988), pp. 211–221. Clair Vickery, The Time-Poor: A New Look at Poverty, The Journal of Human Resources, vol. 12(1977), pp. 27–48. 4) Angus S. Deaton and John Muellbauer, On Measuring Child Costs, Journal of Political Economy, vol. 94(1986), pp. 720–744. Brigitte Buhmann, Lee Rainwater; Günther Schmaus und Timothy M Smeeding, Equivalence Scales, Well-Being, Inequality, and Poverty: Sensitivity Estimates Across Ten Countries Using the Luxembourg Income (LIS) Database, Review of Income and Wealth, vol. 34(1988), pp. 115–142. Panos Pashardes, Equivalent expenditure vs. equivalent income scales, Journal of Public Economics, vol 45(1991), pp. 191–213. 5) Bane, Mary Jo, and David T. Ellwood (1986), Slipping Into and Out of Poverty: The Dynamics of Spells, Journal of Human Resources, vol. 21, pp.1-23. Ann Huf Stevens, The Dynamics of Poverty Spells: Updating Bane and Ellwood, American Economic Review, vol. 84,(1994) pap. proc., pp. 34 – 37. Buhr, Petra (1995), Dynamik von Armut, Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag. Für Österreich: Christine Stelzer-Orthofer, Armut und Zeit, Opladen: Leske und Buderich, 1997. Für eine einfache Darstellung der statistischen Konzepte der Dauer: Kiefer, Nicolas N. (1988), Economic Duration Data and Hazard Functions, Journal of Economic Literature, vol. 26, pp. 646–679. 6) Sen, Amarty (1976), Poverty: An Ordinal Approach to Measurement. Econometrica, vol. 44, pp. 219-31. Clark, Stephen, Richard Hemming and David Ulph (1981), On Indices for the Measurement of Poverty, Economic Journal, vol. 91, pp. 515–25. 7) Haddad, Lawrence and Ravi Kanbur (1990), ‘How Serious is the Neglect of IntraHousehold Inequality?’, Economic Journal, 100, pp. 866–81. Jenkins, Stephen P. (1991), Poverty Measurement and the Within-Household Distribution: Agenda for Action, Journal of Social Policy, vol.20, pp. 457–83. Sara Cantillon and Brian Nolan (2001), Poverty within households: Measuring gender differences using nonmonetary indicators, Feminist Economics, vol 7, pp. 5–23. Foster, James E. und Anthony F. Shorrocks (1988): Poverty Orderings, Econometrica, vol. 56, pp. 173 – 177. Atkinson, Anthony B. und François Bourguignon (1987), Income Distributions and Differences in Needs, in George R. Feiwel (ed.): ‘Arrow and the Foundations of the Theory of Economic Policy, New York: New York University Press, pp. 350 – 370. Atkinson, Anthony B. (1992), Measuring Poverty and Differences in Family Composition, Economica, vol. 58, pp. 1 – 16. Jenkins, Stephen P. und Lambert Peter J. (1993), Ranking Income Distributions when Needs Differ, Review of Income and Wealth, vol. 39, p. 337 – 356. Bishop, John A, John B. Fromby, Lester A. Zeager (1996), The Impact of Food Stamps on US Poverty in the 1980s: A Marginal Dominance Analysis, Economica, vol. 63, pp. S141–S162. 8) Die Armutsberichte, wie in den Unterlagen angegeben. 9) Ravallion, Martin, Gaurav Datt, and Dominique van de Walle, Quantifying Absolute Poverty in the Developing World, Review of Income and Wealth, Vol. 37(1991), pp. 345–361. Chen Shaohua and Martin Ravallion, How did the World’s Poorest Fare in the 1990s?, Review of Income and Wealth, Vol. 47(2001), pp. 283–300. Datt, Gaurav and Martin Ravallion (1992), Growth and Redistribution Components of Changes in Poverty Measures, Journal of Development Economics, 38, pp. 275–95. 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Craig, Peter, Costs and Benefits: A Review of Research on Take-up of Income-Related Benefits, Journal of Social Policy, vol. 20(1991) p. 537–565. Moffitt, Robert, An Economic Model of Welfare Stigma, American Economic Review vol. 73(1983), pp. 1023-1035. Blank, Rebecca M.; Patricia Ruggles, When Do Women Use Aid to Families with Dependent Children and Food Stamps? The Dynamics of Eligibility Versus Participation, Journal of Human Resources, vol, 31(1996), pp. 57–89. Liste der für die Referate relevanten Artikel 20. 10. Armutsschranke: Pradhan, Menno, Asep Suryahadi, Sudarno Sumarto and Lant Pritchett (2001), Eating Like Which “Jones’s”? An Iterative Solution to the Choice of a Poverty Line “Reference Group”, Review of Income and Wealth, vol. 47, pp. 473 – 488. Haveman, Robert and Andrew Bershadker (2001), The “Inability to be Self-Reliant” as an Indicator of Poverty: Trends for the U.S., 1975–1997, Review of Income and Wealth, vol. 47, pp. 335-360. 27. 10. Vergleich von relativen und absoluten Armutsschranken: Blackburn, McKinley L. (1998), The Sensitivity of International Poverty Comparisons, Review of Income and Wealth, vol. 44, pp. 449 – 472. Madden, David (2000), Relative or Absolute Poverty Lines: A New Approach, Review of Income and Wealth, vol. 46, pp. 181 – 199. 3. 11. Äquivalenzskalen: Conniffe, Denis (1992), The Non-Constancy of Equivalence Scales, Review of Income and Wealth, vol. 37, pp. 429 – 444. Koulovatianos Christos,, Carsten Schröder, Ulrich Schmidt (2007), On the Income Dependence of Equivalence Scales, Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 89(5-6), pp. 967-996 10. 11. Unterschiedliche Preise für Arme und nicht-Arme: Macdonald, J. M. and P. E. Nelson (1991), Do the Poor Still Pay More? Food Price Variations in Large Metropolitan Areas, Journal of Urban Economics, vol. 30, pp. 344-359. Rao, Vijayendra (2000), Price Heterogeneity and “Real” Inequality: A Case Study of Prices and Poverty in Rural South India, Review of Income and Wealth, vol. 46, pp. 201 – 211. 17. 11. Dauer von Armut: Ruggles Patricia, Williams Roberton (1989), Longitudinal Measures of Poverty: Accounting for Income and assets over Time, Review of Income and Wealth, vol. 35, pp.225 – 243. Chauduri Shubham, Ravallion Martin (1994), How well do static indicators identify the chronically poor? Journal of Public Economics, vol. 53, pp. 367 – 394. Stevens Ann Huff (1999), Climbing Out of Poverty, Falling Back In, Journal of Human Ressources, vol. 34, pp. 557 – 588. 24. 11. Armutsmessung: Klasen, Stephan, (2000), Measuring Poverty and Deprivation in South Africa, Review of Income and Wealth, vol. 46, pp. 33 – 58. Van den Bosch, Karel (1998), Poverty and Assets in Belgium, Review of Income and Wealth, vol. 44, pp.215 – 228. Forby, John P., Hoseong Kim and Buhong Zheng (2001), Sen Measures of Poverty in the United States: Cash versus Comprehensive Incomes in the 1990s, Pacific Economic Review, vol. 6, pp. 193– 10. 1. 12. Armut und Allokation im Haushalt: Lundberg, Shelly J., Robert A. Pollak and Terence J. Wales, (1996), Do Husbands and Wives Pool Their Resources?, Journal of Human Ressources, vol. 32, pp. 463–480. Pitt, Mark M., Mark R. Rosenzweig and Nazmul Hassan (1990), Productivity, Health, and Inequality in the Intrahousehold Distribution of Food in Low-Income Countries, American Economic Review vol. 80, pp. 1139–1156. 15. 12. Kinderarbeit: Basu, Kaushik and Pham Hoand Van (1998), The Economics of Child Labor, American Economic Review, vol. 88, pp. 412 – 427. Basu, Kaushik (2000), The Intriguing Relation between Adult Minimum Wage and Child Labour, Economic Journal, vol. 110, pp. C50 – C61. Ravallion, Martin and Quentin Wodon (2000), Does Child Labour Displace Schooling? Evidence in Behavioural Responses to an Enrolment Subsidy, Economic Journal, vol.110, pp. C158 – C175. 12. 1 Zielgenauigkeit: Kanbur, Ravi, Michael Keen and Matti Tumola (1995), Labor Supply and Targeting in Poverty Alleviation Programs, in: D. van de Valle and K. Nead, ‘Public Spending and the Poor’, Baltimore: John Hopkins Press, pp. 91 – 113. Ravallion, Martin and Gaurav Datt (1995), Is Targeting through Work Requirement Efficient? Some Evidence for Rural India, in: D. van de Valle and K. Nead, ‘Public Spending and the Poor’, Baltimore: John Hopkins Press, pp. 413 – 444. Ravallion, Matin and Chaudhuri Datt (1993), Does Maharashta’s Employment Guarantee Scheme Guarantee employment? Effects of the 1988 Wage Increase. Economic Development and Cultural Change, vol. 41, pp. 251 – 275. 14. 1. Inanspruchnahme von Leistungen: Blank, Rebecca M and Patricia Ruggles (1996), When Do Women Use Aid to Families with Dependent Children, Journal of Human Resources, vol. 31, pp. 57 – 89. Riphahn Regina T. (2001), Rational Poverty or Poor Rationality? The Take-up of Social Assistance Benefits, Review of Income and Wealth, vol. 47, pp.379 – 398.